- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
TEXAS governor Greg Abbott has said that Salvador Ramos, who shot and killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, was a US citizen, not an illegal immigrant. His clarification came after social media posts falsely claimed that the gunman was an immigrant illegally in the country. It was flagged as part of Facebook’s…
Actor Darshan Kumar, who made his acting debut opposite none other than Priyanka Chopra in Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom (2014), is presently basking in the earth-shattering success of his recent release, The Kashmir Files (2022). Helmed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, The Kashmir Files sheds light on the killings and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the Kashmir valley in the…
In the deadliest school shooting in the decade after the Sandy Hook massacre, an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 19 students and two teachers. The gruesome shooting has evoked strong reactions from film personalities across the globe with Priyanka…
Though a lot still needs to be done, it is no longer a rare sight to see South Asians creating their own space in showbiz. Talking about South Asian actors, in particular, they are getting meatier roles to play in movies as well as TV series and are no longer…
AN INDIAN court on Wednesday (25) ordered life in jail for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik for funding “terrorist” activities and many other charges, prompting street protests outside his residence and condemnation from Pakistan’s prime minister. Malik, head of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), had pleaded guilty to…
AS RAHUL GANDHI’S remarks on the current situation in India are creating ripples on social media, a civil servant confronted the Congress lawmaker in the UK, suggesting his idea of India could be “flawed and destructive”. Siddhartha Verma, an Indian Railway Traffic Service officer and Commonwealth scholar in public policy…
BRITAIN’s most senior minority ethnic police officer has urged police chiefs to admit institutional racism to “win back trust”, according to a report. Neil Basu, an assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan police and former head of counter-terrorism, added that “positive discrimination” should be introduced to boost numbers of minority ethnic…
THE British Asian landscape designer Manoj Malde has spoken of “creating connections” as part of his new role as an ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) with a remit for “inclusivity” that was announced at the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday (23). That was the day the Queen, who…
A doctor from North Lanarkshire has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing patients over four decades, the BBC reported. Dr Krishna Singh 72, kissed, groped, gave inappropriate examinations and made sleazy comments to 47 patients, the report added. Singh, who was awarded an MBE in 2013, denied abusing his position…
THE World Bank said it is not planning to provide any new financing to cash-strapped Sri Lanka until an adequate economic policy framework has been put in place. In a statement, the multilateral development bank said it was repurposing resources from previously approved projects to help the Sri Lankan government…
